Maths: Blog items
Date: 18th May 2021 @ 5:03pm
This week's topic in Reception has been Super Heroes! We have been dressing up, acting out our own narratives, writing and taking it in taking turns playing maths games. We read the story Supertato, wrote about our favourite part of the story and even made our own Supertato!
Take a look at what some of our photos!
Date: 11th May 2021 @ 3:57pm
We continued our journey in multiplication and learned how to multiply 4-digit numbers by 2-digits. After becoming fluent with the method, we moved on to solve more complex problem solving and reasoning tasks, including missing number probems and those involving using trial and error.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:25pm
Year Two worked hard in pairs to solve a division problem based on the story of 100 Hungry Ants by Elinor Pinczes. We worked together to find all the possible ways of dividing 36 or 24 groups of ants. We tried to work systematically to make sure we found all the possibilities and we had some great discussions about using known facts to help us find all the ways. This also led to some great reasoning about odd and even numbers.
Miss Hooson and Mrs Fielding were very impressed with the perseverance and stamina shown whilst completing this task.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 7:36am
Today was the second day of our DT unit on making pizzas. We began the day by making the dough - we did this by following a simple recipe for the BBC
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 7:27am
Today we began our DT journey of making pizzas. We looked at what we already knew about pizzas, including how we make them. We began by tasting pizzas and evaluating what we liked/disliked. After that, we went into Redcliffes to make our pizza sauce. We read through the pizza sauce recipe and weighed out and measured the ingredients we needed. Then, we all had a go at chopping and peeling onions and garlic. After that, we mixed together all of the other ingredients: tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, oregano, basil, brown sugar and a bay leaf. We then heated the sauce through for 20 mins and set it cool. At the end of the day, we blitzed the sauce to make it smooth.
Date: 8th May 2021 @ 8:03pm
Today was the second day of our DT unit on making pizzas. We began the day by making the dough - we did this by following a simple recipe for the BBC
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 11:46am
In our computing lessons, we have been improving our typing and presentation skills.
We have used our computing skills across the curriculum too by manipulating shapes in maths and writing up our Hot Write from Reading into Writing.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 8:13am
Today we began our DT journey of making pizzas. We looked at what we already knew about pizzas, including how we make them. We began by tasting pizzas and evaluating what we liked/disliked. After that, we went into Redcliffes to make our pizza sauce. We read through the pizza sauce recipe and weighed out and measured the ingredients we needed. Then, we all had a go at chopping and peeling onions and garlic. After that, we mixed together all of the other ingredients: tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, oregano, basil, brown sugar and a bay leaf. We then heated the sauce through for 20 mins and set it cool. At the end of the day, we blitzed the sauce to make it smooth.
Date: 6th May 2021 @ 4:47pm
The Nursery children love enjoying the outdoors. It is a great place for them to learn and they can use so many skills when they access the outdoor area. This week they have been painting on cling film which has been great for their physical development, looking for worms to go in our homemade wormery and exploring number and cause and effect in the water.
Date: 28th Apr 2021 @ 3:47pm
In KS2 we have been enjoying learning the properties of 2D shapes. We used Venn diagrams to find out how 2D shapes are similar and different.
In KS1 we have been learning to read and write numbers all the way to 100. We have been learning in creatively using number squares, songs and puzzles.
Date: 27th Apr 2021 @ 2:59pm
In Reception we have been reading the story
Date: 22nd Apr 2021 @ 3:07pm
We have carried on looking at the life cycle of a butterfly this week and have enjoyed watching our caterpillars getting bigger! We have also been looking closely at the wings of butterflies and noticed that both wings are exactly the same! They are symmetrical!
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 4:00pm
As it was no pen day on Tuesday the children took part in a relay style maths lesson in which they had to collect parts of a fraction wall. As a team they had to collect all the pieces of the fraction wall to rebuild it on paper. The children thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and worked really hard to complete this task.
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 7:15am
Today we took part in another No Pen Day. We spent time working with others and discussing odd one out pictures. This involved looking at sets of numbers/pictures and working out which one we thought was the odd one out. We had to give clear reasons for answers. In English, we continued with our Quest stories and looked through the book
Date: 20th Apr 2021 @ 3:07pm
Today we had no pen day at school!
For Maths, we cut our whole piece of paper into different fractions, including
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 6:56pm
This week in Maths we completed an addition hunt! We were tasked with finding and answering 10 differentiated addition sums. The sums were spread around each Year 1 classroom and our outdoors area and some were tricky to find! We had to find all 10 sums with a certain colour dot on the outside. We then had to answer them correctly using resources or mental methods. Each class had a ‘base’ set up so that we could return there and use Numicon, cubes, number lines or hundred squares to work out each sum. We all had a great afternoon, filled with lots of addition! We then returned to our classroom and checked our answers.
Date: 31st Mar 2021 @ 11:11am
This week in Reception the children have been busy practicing counting on and back using a number line. They children have been using number cards to create their own calculations. They then used the number line to help them work out how answers. The children then recorded their work on a white.
"If your adding the number gets bigger" Mia
"Taking away means it's getting less" Arthur
Date: 31st Mar 2021 @ 8:07am
Year 5 continued their fractions journey by learning how to add fractions with different denominators. We recapped on how to find a common denominator and then worked as a class to create a success criteria for adding fractions. After practising the skill by completing fluency questions, we solved some more complex reasoning and problem solving challenges.
Same areas, different perimeters!!
Date: 22nd Mar 2021 @ 1:02pm
In today's Maths session we started our new unit on area and perimeter. We began with looking at the definiton of the following terms: area, perimeter, rectilinear, compound and volume. We then looked at different ways shapes could have the same area but different perimeters. We practised drawing rectangles on 1cm paper then created compound rectilinear shapes with the same area.
Date: 18th Mar 2021 @ 1:38pm
This week we have been revisiting some areas we have previously covered in Maths, including how many tens are in numbers, multiples of ten and a hundred, the value of each three digit numbers and how to partition numbers in different ways using different images.
We need to keep up our knowledge of place value because this will help us with addition, subtraction, multiplcation and division.
Date: 17th Mar 2021 @ 5:25pm
This week we have been continuing our animal topic by looking at animal patterns, making animal and repeating patterns, sorting animals (by the number of legs, climate, patterns) and reading the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle.
We still continued to look for signs of Spring and drew pictures, wrote words, captions and sentences to capture these experiences.
Date: 17th Mar 2021 @ 11:24am
This week we have been working hard in Maths to measure the length of various objects and the distance of various 2 points. We learnt how to use different meauring tools and convert between mm, cm and m. We worked practically to develop our skills and we applied our skills when we made our own challenges to solve using measures.
We have also been learning how to use different sorting charts, using our shape knowledge to practically create our own data.
Date: 17th Mar 2021 @ 10:08am
We continued our learning journey in Science this week and created two graphs. We learned about the gestation period of different mammals and then plotted a scatter graph to help us to spot patterns. We concluded that, in general, animals with a longer gestation period had a longer lifespan. We then looked at the growth of babies and plotted a line graph to show the different growth rates of boys and girls.
Date: 12th Mar 2021 @ 7:55am
This week in Cedar, we have been learning about 2D shapes. We learnt their names and their different properties.
We also have fun making 2D shapes using wooden lollisticks, geoboards and pegboards.
Holly Class Forest School Fun!
Date: 11th Mar 2021 @ 8:47pm
It was a very breezy day but Holly Class wrapped up warm and ventured out to take part in Forest School.
First, we warmed up by playing running games and hide a seek and then we used our beady eyes to look for circles in the environment. We found them everywhere, on a bench, on logs and canes, at the bird stop, in plant pots and even in the pond (which had lots of frog spawn!). We then went exploring, trampiing through the soggy grass, raking the mud to plant grass seeds and building towers and seats to sit on using the logs. Alfie even found a frog! The children worked together, helping each other to lift, build, carry and explore.
By the time it was time to go, we were all very muddy and and very hungry. Before we went to lunch, Mrs McAllister hosed all the children down which was to their absolute delight!
